| August 23, 2006 |
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Slave Narratives
This  elegant site from the Museum of the African Diaspora presents audio performances of nine slave narratives. Maya Angelou delivers the closing and opening remarks, and introduces each tale. Her precise, gravelly voice joins the others collected here. Permeated with emotion, each voice recounts a story as individual "as a fingerprint," plucked from across time and around the globe. Tempe Hendon Durham, who lived to the age of 103 in North Carolina, describes her wedding to Exter, another slave. The Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano recounts four decades of harsh servitude. And Francis Bok, who lives today in Boston, delivers a 21st-century tale of capture and 10-year enslavement in Sudan. Each narrative includes the sound presentation, its transcript, and a brief biography. A small dot on the map indicates where each story, so harrowing as to be almost unbelievable, indeed took place. (in History) |
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